The government has imposed movement restrictions on seven districts near Dhaka for nine days starting today, almost shutting off the capital from the rest of the country in the wake of sharp spikes in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

With a civil war brewing in Myanmar, Bangladesh has much to worry about, as the face-off between the junta and the National Unity Government and its allies could result in a refugee influx once again, according to security and international relations analysists.

The government is going to vaccinate people with Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in Dhaka’s three vaccination centres from today.

With the Covid situation worsening further in Khulna division, the health directorate yesterday reported 82 deaths from the virus all over the country -- the highest in the past seven weeks.

The government is going to allow private hospitals and clinics to conduct antigen-based Covid-19 rapid testing in a bid to expand testing facilities and make those more easily available.

The National Human Rights Commission could not resolve nearly half of the cases filed with it over the last decade.

Planning Minister MA Mannan in a Facebook post yesterday reacted to Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen’s demi official letter to railways minister over the route selection for a prospective railway in Sunamganj.

As the administration of the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine resumed yesterday after around two months, 2,956 students of public and private medical and dental colleges were given Sinopharm jabs in the capital, according to a DGHS press release.

On May 29, the Epidemiology and Public Health Committee of DGHS recommended strict and immediate “lockdown” on seven districts where the Delta variant of coronavirus started transmitting in the communities.

A couple and their 21-year-old daughter were found dead in a flat in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area yesterday morning.

An international gambling racket has been siphoning off crores of taka every day from the country and investing in cryptocurrencies, according to law enforcers.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home from Evercare Hospital around 8:35pm yesterday.

Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs -- suggests the famous Greek storyteller Aesop. And looking at Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s proposed tax measures for the mobile financial services operators for the incoming fiscal year, one cannot help but recall the famous fable.

The government’s decision to vaccinate migrant workers with Sinopharm jabs will not resolve the problem being faced by the Saudi Arabia-bound workers as the vaccine is not yet on the kingdom’s priority list, say recruiters.

Young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan reappeared yesterday, eight days after he went missing reportedly on his way to Dhaka.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent two officials of Dhaka Bank to jail after they were handed over to police in connection with the theft of Tk 3.77 crore from the vault of the bank’s Bangshal branch.

After around two months, the administration of the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine resumes today on a limited scale with around 11 lakh Sinopharm jabs in hand.

Faced with the challenge of treating coronavirus patients as well as general ones under the same roof, Rajshahi Medical College Hospital has become a Covid-19 hotspot.

Funds parked by Bangladeshi individuals and firms in Swiss banks dropped 6.6 percent to 563 million Swiss francs (about Tk 5,215 crore) in 2020, the third year in a row in which it declined.

The social protection budget of the government is not as large as it is claimed to be and a major chunk of it actually consists of allocations not specifically targeting the poor or vulnerable groups.